25 Mar Approaching an Agent
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Fiction Feedback hints for impressing an agent...
25 Mar Showing and Telling: Times for Both
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What’s the single biggest flaw I see in writing? It has to be telling and not showing. Both on a micro and a macro scale. Show not tell is perhaps the piece of advice most handed out to writers. But what does it actually mean? Here’s a few pointers...
25 Mar R M Dorn Switches from Science Fantasy to Historical Adventure
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Rosemary Hagedorn, writing as R M Dorn, has published six science fantasy novels with Lume Books (formerly Endeavour Press). However, her latest novel is based on the adventures of a true-life character, Colonel Joseph Bampfield...
25 Mar Has D J Harrison More Trouble in Store for Jenny Parker?
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D J Harrison’s Jenny Parker series, about a woman whose struggle to survive a world of villainy calls into question the reader’s morals and ethics, might be about to get a new lease of life....
04 Feb How to Win Writing Competitions
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The benefits of entering competitions are significant. They can be career-enhancing and even life-changing. So here's our top five reasons for entering competitions. Our last reason may surprise you, and it applies to all writing competition entrants, not just the winners. ...
04 Feb Austin Hernon Earns Contract for Sixth Book
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Austin Hernon, author of two series of historical adventure novels, has a publishing contract for a sixth title from Sapere Books. This will be the third in his Wars of the Magna Carta series, set in twelfth century England and featuring the Siege of Lincoln ...
04 Feb National Crime Reading Month
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May is the time for murder and mayhem – hopefully only in books. Usually the NCRM initiative, promoted by the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA), is a month-long series of physical events taking place in bookshops, libraries and literary festivals up and down the country. It’s obviously not going to be like that in May 2020, so the CWA have come up with online ideas instead. If crime fiction and non-fiction is your thing, pop along to www.crimereadingmonth.co.uk for YouTube videos of Crime Writers in Residence and for blog posts from authors under lockdown. For for all-year-round info, blogs and short...
03 Feb Writing competitions: should you enter?
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This was a post in January from Fiction Feedback on the blog by ALLi – Alliance of Independent Authors. Writing Competitions: Why Enter, How to Win Dea Parkin, Editor-in-chief at ALLi partner member Fiction Feedback and Secretary of the Crime Writers’ Association, tells us about her experience administrating and reading for major writing competitions and advises how best to go about preparing your entry. I’ve worked with the Crime Writers’ Association running their international competitions, the CWA Debut Dagger and the Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition, for five years now and have judged entries for several national short story competitions for well over a decade. In this time,...
03 Feb No VAT on ebooks from 1 MAY
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Fiction Feedback is proud to have helped author Simone on the early iterations of her novel. Congratulations on publication, Simone! The March 2020 Budget presented by Chancellor Rishi Sunak might have been overtaken in all our minds by other events and Government edicts, but it contained one vital fact for authors: ebooks will no longer attract VAT. The 20% tax on ebooks – not to mention online newspapers, magazines and journals – is set to disappear on 1 December 2020. Update: In light of the coronavirus crisis, this has been brought forward and came into effect on 1 May 2020. This...
02 Feb Karen Ann Davies a romance writer to watch
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Fiction Feedback was delighted to copy-edit this charming romance from Karen Ann Davies some while ago. Now it's published, and we can all escape to Spain. Which is a good thing at the best of times, and in 2020, when the book came out, was just what we all needed. The novel's about more than escapism, though. There are some serious points here about the impact of our childhood and how dodgy precepts we learn then are hard to shake off. In The Essence of Love, Katie makes a journey in every sense, and very rewarding it is too. A...